Dear Lis-linkers,
Many thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information on how you promote your new books - I'm very grateful! As promised here are the results I received.
The two questions I asked were:
1. How exactly do you prmote your new books? Which methods have you tried?
2. Do you divide your lists of new books by subject? Do you drill down further to course level?
Zoological Society of London
Direct email to staff with a PDF file each month.
The PDF file is also added to a dedicated webpage. The lists are divided by subject. Also have an RSS feed on the catalogue to show which new books have arrived
http://www.zsl.org/about-us/library/new-aquired-books,72,AR.html
Edgehill University
New books lists on subject page, drilled down by subject as much as possible. This is only possible by running reports on their LMS using either a Dewey range or fund code. This means that ebooks don’t appear. They’re thinking of using information literacy sessions to promote the ebooks.
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/ls/subject/health/
University of Lincoln
Use Talis Aspire on their subject pages (under books/new books tab) and a blog as a tab. http://businesslibrarian.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
http://guides.library.lincoln.ac.uk/business
Keele University
New book display shelf immediately inside the Library entrance. Also a link to new books on the catalogue updated monthly.
New books are blogged about each month selecting items from the long list. Blog entries are also tweeted. The idea is to highlight that new items are coming in regularly, that they support a wide range of topics and that requests for popular items are responded to.
http://calmview.keele.ac.uk/opac/newbooks.html
http://hlnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/new-books-for-august-2012.html
http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/
Oxford University Language Library
This is a small library within Oxford University. New books appear on Librarything and this list is also available from a blog. IMdb is used for DVDs which allows students to comment. There is also has a facebook page. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/LanguageLibOxford
http://languagelibraryatoxford.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-University-Language-Centre-Library/118720585158
Nuffield College Library
Have a Librarything organisation account & make use of the widgets to advertise new books on their website. Also use Librarything’s RSS feed function, asking people to sign up if they’d like a weekly feed of new books. Have a new books shelf & a cover display too.
http://www.librarything.com/widget
Loughborough University
Have a link on their blog site, divided by Dewey classmark & a display at the main entrance. Don’t think either are that successful.
http://blog.lboro.ac.uk/blog/new-material-in-the-library
Regards,
Sally
Sally Fensome
Academic Liaison Librarian (HSS)
University of Bedfordshire (Polhill Campus)
Polhill Avenue
Bedford
MK41 9EA
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